September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month

September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month

Free Screenings at Edgefield County Healthcare Edgefield County Healthcare will be offering FREE PSA Screening Tests for the month of September to all men age 50 and older.  Men age 40 – 50, who have a family history of prostate cancer, will also qualify for this free screening. Please come to the hospital laboratory or […]

50thAnniversary of Wardlaw Academy

50thAnniversary of Wardlaw Academy

A Celebration to Come   As this newspaper went to press, there was notification of scheduled events, found in the article below, to be changed, due to impending bad weather – Hurricane Dorian. The school advised: “The events written about below will be rescheduled over the course of this school year.”   News of the […]

Alma Quarles Morgan – Johnson, SC

Thurmond Burnett                David T. Burnett     Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home PO Box 389 – 801 Columbia Rd. Edgefield, South Carolina 29824 Phone: 803-637-6536 Email: david@edgefieldmercantile.com             Alma Quarles Morgan, 91, wife of the late Preston Morgan, of Old Chappell Ferry Rd., Johnston, SC entered into rest Monday, September 2, 2019. […]

Margaret “Peggy” Adams McDaniel Jennings

Thurmond Burnett                David T. Burnett Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home PO Box 389 – 801 Columbia Rd. Edgefield, South Carolina 29824 Phone: 803-637-6536 Email: david@edgefieldmercantile.com   Margaret “Peggy” Adams McDaniel Jennings, 84, wife of the late Robert L. Jennings entered into rest Monday, September 2, 2019.   Graveside services will be held at 1 PM Friday, September […]

Robert Henry “Bobby” Moore – North Augusta

Thurmond Burnett          Phone: (803)637-6536 David T. Burnett                   Fax: (803)637-6006 Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home, Inc. Established 1902 801 Columbia Road Post Office Box 389 Edgefield, South Carolina 29824 www.edgefieldmercantilefh.com   Robert Henry “Bobby” Moore, 65, husband of Linda Olix Moore of Hillside Place, North Augusta entered into […]

Liberation of Paris

Special to the Advertiser  By Elizabeth Joiner All writers in Op Ed are here to inform and acknowledge issues of importance to our communities, however these writings represent the views  and opinions of the authors and not necessarily of The Advertiser On August 25th of this year Paris will celebrate the 75thanniversary of its liberation […]

Religion, Politics, and “Paying It Forward”

Religion, Politics, and “Paying It Forward”

By: Robert Scott All writers in Op Ed are here to inform and acknowledge issues of importance to our communities, however these writings represent the views  and opinions of the authors and not necessarily of The Advertiser This column is a rewrite of one first run by this newspaper in July 2017, and it is […]

Crime in Edgefield

ECSO Helps Man Suffering from Medical Condition The Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office received a call Aug. 20 of a reckless driver on Augusta Road.  According to the ECSO report on this incident, as a deputy was en route, dispatch advised that the driver had turned northward onto Hwy 23 and was traveling about 5 mph […]

Teddy Ethan “Ted” Lynn Jr.

Thurmond Burnett          Phone: (803)637-6536 David T. Burnett                        Fax: (803)637-6006   Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home, Inc. Established 1902 801 Columbia Road Post Office Box 389 Edgefield, South Carolina 29824 www.edgefieldmercantilefh.com     Teddy Ethan “Ted” Lynn Jr., 84, husband of the late Jurlene Abney Lynn, […]

A Biography of Senator Lawrence Cain

A Biography of Senator Lawrence Cain

Another Volume of Edgefield Black History Takoma Park, MD – August 22, 2019 – Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s documentary, Reconstruction: America After the Civil War, reintroduced America to this overlooked period of American History. Virtue of Cain: From Slave to Senator— Biography of Lawrence Cain examines the short but extraordinary life of a prominent […]